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Much is made of coaching trees that derive from assistant coaches who have worked for prominent head coaches. The success or failure of the coaches that branch out after having worked under a particular head coach can bear significantly on the legacy of the head coach. Consider the former coach of the Green Bay Packers, […]

Okeoma Moronu recently had me on her podcast “The Happy Lawyer Project” to discuss time management and productivity, making yourself indispensable within your law firm, influential books that I’ve read in the past year, and of course, my new book, Stop Putting Out Fires. You can listen to the interview wherever you normally listen to […]

I consumed about 40 books last year. I say consumed rather than read because about 2/3 of them were via audiobook, and some people draw a distinction between reading and listening to books. Nevertheless, below are the books I read last year and a sentence or two about what I thought of them. For the […]

Five Mile Creek is stalked by a yellow crowned night heron. Every morning she fishes there for crawfish, wading its waters looking for a good spot. One morning, I took my camera so I could watch her more closely. This is what I saw. The heron perched on a submerged rock and waited, watching. For […]

How do you think it would be received if the first time you met someone you planted a kiss right on their mouth and began to assume that you were in a dating relationship? Likely not very well. Why then do we treat business relationships any different? Let me tell you a story About a […]

Lawyers should be doing content marketing as a means of providing value and building up trust equity with clients/potential clients, as well as exhibiting your expertise. If you’re not engaging in content marketing to enable clients to find you and so you can answer their questions, here’s a primer about what content marketing is, what’s […]

Once a month, I send out an email to the folks who subscribe to my email list. A few months ago, I noticed a particular auto-responder that I got from one of the lawyers who subscribes to the list: I only check my email twice each day.  My goal is to reply to yours within […]

I was sitting in my four-year-old’s room finishing up the square knot on his muslin-blanket-turned-superhero-cape. He looked at me with a twinkle and said, “Let’s play the jumping game!” I put my hands on the ground palms down and assumed the posture of a silverback gorilla. Jack climbed onto my back, perched on my shoulders, […]

You have ultimate control over your own success or failure. The locus of control is squarely within your domain. It’s important that you understand that. This isn’t to say everything you attempt will be successful no matter how badly you want it — certainly it will not. But there are things you can control for […]

Part 5, Legacy of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation With the creation of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in April 1962 and a declaration of intent published within the next month, Director Edward Crafts (who served in this capacity from 1962-1969) had only to set plans in motion. The BOR served primarily advisory and assistance […]